Florida Gardening: Plants blooming today, 1 by sunkissed

sunkissed wrote:
Here ya go Bonnie, the brown ones are the Cuban brown anoles, the larger ones are males (they have an orange Dewlap), and females tend to be smaller.

The native green anole isn't as commonly seen. Vines and trees are great to have because they can easily camouflage them and they like to be up high or maybe they've been driven to higher places for protection.
The brown anoles tend like the ground and lower branches and bark of trees.
The green will change to a brown or gray color when stressed or cold and so some call them chameleons, but they are not chameleons.

Actually the greatest predator for the green anole is snakes and birds, the brown cuban anoles are more aggressive and larger and will eat the smaller green anoles especially new hatch-lings, which is probably more of a territory competition than anything else.

I believe I read that the brown isn't considered enough of a threat to be economically important, like the frogs are, and due to the abundance of them it would be highly unlikely eradication could ever be achieved .